NEWS BY CABLE.

New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 8471, 21 August 1888, Page 6

NEWS BY CABLE.

By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright. (PER PRESS ASSOCIATION'.) London, August 17. The Emperor William, in unveiling the statue of Frederick Charles of Germany (the Red Prince), said-that 18 army corps and forty-two millions of people would prefer to die in battle rather*than surrender Alsace. Mr Gladstone has invited the leading members of the Irish party to dinner. Arrived —Woodlark, barque, from Lyttelton (May 14). Neat 'York, August 17.

An epidemic of yellow fever is raging in Florida, and the population has been decimated by its ravages, the Indians particularly dying in large numbers.

The Convent of the Sacred Heart in this city has been destroyed by fire. There were no casualties, but the destruction of the buildings,_ which were very massive, has occasioned great loss.

Sir Morell Mackenzie's book refuting the charges brought against him by his enemies in Germany will be published simultaneously in England and Germany within a month. The general impression in medical circles is that but for Dr Mackenzie’s timely intervention the late Emperor Frederick would never have ascended the throne.

Melbourne, August 20,

Tho Exhibition is no« far advanced toward completion. The attendance on Saturday numbered 24,000. Arrived—Peerless, brigantine, from Kaipara

Newcastle, August 20. Arrived Kenilworth, schooner, from Gisborne.

Brisbane, August 20.

Arrived—Fijian, from Oamaru. A Frenchman named Duhamol murdered Mrs Eiley, his paramour, near Croydon, almost cutting her Lead off with a razor. The murderer then swallowed strychnine, but took too much, and the overdose acted as an emetic. He was arrested immediately. Jealousy is assigned as the cause.

Hobart, August 20.

A resolution has been carried imposing a tax of a halfpenny in the £ on land owned by absentees, but it is not regarded as likely to become law.

SPECIAL.

London, August 18.

There is a growing belief that the white pasha, of whom accounts have come Irom time to time by way cf Khartoum, is really Stanley.

A Parnell defence fund has been started for the purpose of meeting the expenses of the inquiry before the Comnmsiou.

August 17. The press deny that there is the slightest foundation for the statement that Princess Christian has been converted to the Homan Catholic faith. The report is said to have been merely a rumour based upon the coming visit of Monsignor Persico, the Pope’s delegate to London.

It is staled that Australian visitors in London lost L 20,000 plunging on the All England match. Sir John Gorst, m defending himself against the attacks recently made on him by the Indian press, has denied that he was a friend of Palmer, or that he had any connection with the Hyderabad scandals.

Capetown, August 17. The rejection of the South African Customs Union Bill having caused great dissatisfaction, a special session of tho Capo Parliament has been convened to reconsider the subject, A German trading company has been established at Zanzibar.

New York, August 17,

■ The American Natives’ Association have nominated Mr G. Curtis for the Presidency.